- From: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 07:45:32 +0200
- To: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, Andreas Petersson <andreas@sbin.se>, "Thomson, Martin" <Martin.Thomson@commscope.com>, Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>, "ietf-http-wg@w3.org" <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Sat, Apr 09, 2011 at 12:02:55PM +1000, Mark Nottingham wrote: > forwarded-for = 1#( hop *[ ";" parameter ] ) > hop = address | pseudonum > pseudonum = token > address = ... > > I.e., you don't have to make the header syntactic mush just to make it clear that it doesn't always have semantic integrity. > > One of the reasons for allowing extension parameters, btw, is to allow someone to sign the hops if they want to. That's a good point. We could also imagine that some people might want to specify an incoming interface name, an AS number or whatever. Regards Willy
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